Your course web site is a portfolio for your course work. By the end of the semester, any outsider (which could include future employers) should be able to go to your web site and see all of the results of your hard work. They should also be able to play some video games you have written. Now we are just going to get started with the shell of a web site. A sample page is located here.

Update: There does not seem to be a discussion board yet for the summer session of this class (only last Spring’s discussion board is set up at the site below)... so, instead of posting to the board, just e-mail me when you are done.

Once you finish making your web site, post a message to the class discussion board telling people about it and include a link to it. Extra credit will be given for those students that respond to other students favorite and least favorite games (i.e., discuss the topic on the bulletin board).

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How to

To create the content for your website, you can use a program specifically designed to edit web pages (like Dreamweaver, Frontpage, or iWeb), or a standard modern word processor (Word, OpenOffice, Text Edit, etc.). Any of these editors allow you write text or import images without worrying about the actual HTML code used to format the web page. You may, however, choose to make your web page with a simple text editor by writing HTML code yourself. If you would like to learn more about the hypertext markup language, HTML, you can look at a these sites:

For more help on creating a web page, OIT has created a Duke-specific tutorial online here (although it is DreamWeaver specific, it contains a lot of generically useful instructions).

Once you have created a website, you will need to transfer it to a web server (to “publish” it, or “put it on the web”). To do that, you need to save your files into a specific folder on the Duke University computer system (acpub). To transfer work from your computer to acpub, use the following instructions (note: “directory” and “folder” are synonymous and can be used interchangeably):

12. If you've done everything correctly, you should be able to go to your web address, which is http://www.duke.edu/~your_login/cps004 (where you replace your_login with your actual username) and see the web page you just created.